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Right Turn

Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

Incidental Music:

Everybody Wants to Rule the World(The Bad Plus)

The Kiss

Mee-Woo(California Guitar Trio)

Theme to 'The A-Team'

May 22, 2011

In the recent election, the Tea Party emerged as a major force in American politics. It's a striking story, when a few years before, the "New York Times" was speculating about the demise of the Republican party. So, why the game change, after Barack Obama won the White House on a surge of grassroots support? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, America's right turn. We'll find out why the founding fathers are hot property in contemporary politics and look back at the Reagan legacy.